Begin Animation: The Complete Course for the Complete Beginner
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Introduction

What you will learn
What You Will Need
The History of Animation
Animation Overview

Three Types Of Animations
Animation Software
Gear Needed for Animation
Frame Rates
Working On One's and Two's
Keyframes
Blocking and Inbetweens
Onion Skinning
Curve Editor or Graphs
Characters

Vector vs Raster
Creating characters
Rigging
IK and FK
Physics
Scenes and Backgrounds

Parallax Backgrounds (2D Animation)
Creating a 3D Background
Understanding Textures
Lighting
12 Principles of Animation

Squash & Stretch
Anticipation
Staging
Straight Ahead – Pose to Pose
Follow through – Overlapping action
Slow In - Slow Out
Arc
Secondary Action
Timing
Exaggeration
Solid Drawing
Appeal
The 6 Steps of Animation

Reference Videos
Blocking
Timing
Inbetweens
Smoothing
Adding Life
Animation Pipeline

Three Stages of Animation
Story Development
Script Writing
Concept Art
Character Development
Storyboarding
Voice Overs
Animatic
Animation
Sound Design
Post Production
Rendering

Rendering Explained
Realtime vs Offline Rendering
Conclusion

Your Next Steps

Scenes and Backgrounds

In this module we learn more about creating scenes and backgrounds for your animations

4 Lessons